Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Joseph Wong of Investment Banking, Union Bank Of Hong Kong. On July 6, 2004, our client Mr. Irvin Poot, a businessman, made a numbered fixed deposit for 6 (six) calendar months, with a value of US$20.5m only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him and no response came from him. Another notification was sent early February and still no response came from him. The Bank officially sent two-man delegate to his residence in Malaysia were he reside only to find out that the business mogul and his family perished in the Tsunami disaster.

After further investigations, it was also discovered that Mr. Irvin Poot did not declare any next of kin in his official papers, including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he visited my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Twenty million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.

According to the laws of my country, at the expiration of one year (1 year) the funds will revert to the ownership of Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Irvin Poot to enable you receive the funds. Lets put heads together to see how we can transfer these funds out of Hong Kong and use it udiciously.

I have contacted an Attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Mr. Irvin Poot, all that is require from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your full names and Address including your direct phone and fax numbers for my Attorney to commence his job.

My Attorney will also file in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the funds to be move to an account that will be provided by you. We are going to adopt a legalized method and the Attorney will prepare all the necessary documents and no risk involve.

Note that sharing percentage is negotiable by the two parties. Contact me on this email address with your full names, address, fax and telephone number to spamer@spam.com if you are interested and more details will be provided to you about the Project.

I just got a spam email the other day in my hotmail.
The blue "links" at the bottom are just blue underlined text, and the hotmail thing says that it doesn't think it was sent by who it claimed to be.
Clicking that link to update my info goes to some weird-named site that won't load.

Another reason I knew it was a scam: I never had any PayPal account to begin with.

Sadly, though, there is no real site to report this sort of thing. It seems that the anti-spam filters of programs like Entourage and Outlook are now smart enough to look for words like "Nigeria" (and other commonly-used African nations in this sort of scam), so the spammers are changing the names to get through.

Nothing to do, really, but educate people about stuff like this and pray for a solution that will shut the spammers down for good.

Duff-Man says...I have a Netscape mail account that I use for *very* few things...it has ben totally spam-free until about 2 weeks ago when I started getting the Nigeria scam emails, about one per day. Of course I am not stupid enough enough to fall for any of that crap but I am still amazed that anyone actually is. They are supposedly cracking down on these scammers but the succes rate for the scammers must still be good enough to keep taking the risks....oh yeah!

Sadly, though, there is no real site to report this sort of thing. It seems that the anti-spam filters of programs like Entourage and Outlook are now smart enough to look for words like "Nigeria" (and other commonly-used African nations in this sort of scam), so the spammers are changing the names to get through.

Nothing to do, really, but educate people about stuff like this and pray for a solution that will shut the spammers down for good.

Microsoft, Adobe and Macromedia are appreciative of pirated software spam reports piracy@microsoft.com, piracy@adobe.com, tip@macromedia.com. Apple's is piracy@apple.com Quark and Filemaker I have never heard boo from so I have given up on them.
Face it, Microsoft has a way bigger budget to go after spammers and their ISPs that I do... so more power to them.

I have also been reasonably successful getting the senders' Yahoo mail accounts terminated. It's a game of whack-a-mole of course, that will never end unless ISPs give up issuing free Webmail accounts with no ID required.abuse@yahoo.com -- although you sometimes have to send it 4 or 5 times before the drones on the helpdesk actually read the complaint. Usually they just kick it back with a "didn't come from us" boilerplate reply.

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